This morning in our series of reviews of the last year we are going to take a look back at the year of Street Art and Graffiti in Croydon. It’s been an interesting in Croydon with the Arts Quarter continuing to receive a steady stream of new additions and played host to a couple of Paint Jams through […]Read Post ›
Next up in our series of reviews of the last year we are heading over to North London and taking a look back at the year of Street Art in Camden Town. Camden Town has long been a hub of high quality Street Art, a place busting with a sense of creative energy and certainly one of […]Read Post ›
This morning in our series of reviews of the year we are taking a look back at Shoreditch, which alongside the adjoining area of Brick Lane, make up the epicentre of London’s Street Art scene. An area that is a must visit destination for tourists and enthusiasts alike, and whilst there you will regularly pass Street Art tours and […]Read Post ›
A few weeks back saw London receive a visit from Spanish Street Artist KOCTEL who whilst over embarked on a whirlwind of activity with London based artist ThisOne, of which we have a trio of said collaborations painted around East and North London to share with you here. We do love a collaboration and this […]Read Post ›
A couple of weeks back saw some 20 writers and artists take to Fleur De Lis Street, Shoreditch, for a Paint Jam which has transformed this little alleyway which connects East London to the City entirely for the better. Working to a uniform blue backdrop a whole host of letter works and characters now decorate […]Read Post ›
We thought today we would take a look at Maple Road in Penge, perhaps a little biased, as this road is where we started our community Street Art project SprayExhibtion20 to bring some creativity and life to this corner of South London we call home. To date the project has seen some 90 works put up […]Read Post ›
It seems that of late there has been a massive wave of locations that once played host to a wave of creativity and expression are being swallowed up in the name of gentrification, with one of the biggest blows recently dealt to London’s Street Art scene, the loss of Star Yard. Deriving its name from the […]Read Post ›
It certainly has taken us a while to process this post, but we are finally ready to take a look at our takeover of the former Golden Lion pub in Maple Road/Hawthorn Grove, Penge, with some 13 artists coming down to transform this wonderful building for our SprayExhibition20 community Street Art project. This former pub has been left […]Read Post ›
Recently London was fortunate to receive a month long visit from Austrian Street Artist HNRX, marking his 3rd return to the city, with his first visit in December 2015 (covered here) and his second visit in October 2016 (covered here). In true HNRX style he embarked upon a seeming whirlwind of activity placing pieces all around […]Read Post ›
So a couple of weekends back we had the good fortune of spending a long weekend in Croydon with some 36 artists reworking the vast majority of the ‘Arts Quarter’ around St. George’s Walk to put on the ‘Any Colour You Like’ Paint Jam organised by ourselves and put together with support from friend of the blog and […]Read Post ›
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